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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: popi, the digital darkroom
Message-ID: <353@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 16:16:09 GMT
References: <1989Dec27.053537.14990@eng.umd.edu> <2567@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <484@tscs.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <484@tscs.UUCP> gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard,876-5990,EXT 11,442-6618) writes:

| If I had a dollar for everytime I tried to figure out what something was, or
| what version it was...  Multiply this by the thousands of people out there
| who receive this software, and we're talking serious money here. :-)

  How about a dollar for every time you found out something needed (a)
some fancy getopt, (b) some graphics library, (c) some hacked version of
curses, or (d) some other thing you didn't have, and which was too much
effort to get from an archive or connflicted with other stuff on your
system.

  I like the idea of your Prerequisite field, it would save me from even
bothering with some packages which are marginally useful, or allow me to
get them up in half the time.
-- 
	bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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